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Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # John Walcott ## John Walcott John Walcott covers foreign policy and national security. ## John Walcott *  Aug 27, 2020 ### [Why the U.S. Won't Get Involved Belarus' Disputed Election](https://time.com/5883992/trump-administration-belarus-election/) [POLITICS](/section/politics/) *  Aug 25, 2020 ### [Trump Administration Seeks Pre-Election Win on Nuclear Arms Deal with Russia](https://time.com/5883449/trump-administration-seeks-pre-election-win-on-nuclear-arms-deal-with-russia/) [POLITICS](/section/politics/) *  Aug 14, 2020 ### [Ambassador Pick for Germany Underscores 'America First' Foreign Policy](https://time.com/5879692/trump-ambassador-germany-america-first/) [POLITICS](/section/politics/) *  Jul 30, 2020 ### [How Maine's Lobsters Got Trapped in Trump's Trade Wars](https://time.com/5873903/maine-lobster-trump-trade-wars/) [POLITICS](/section/politics/) *  Jul 20, 2020 ### [U.S. and China Tough Talk Makes Diplomatic Resolution Harder](https://time.com/5869083/us-china-tough-talk/) The worsening confrontation between the two outsized economic powers has come to resemble a wrestlin... [POLITICS](/section/politics/) *  Jun 30, 2020 ### [Intel Officials Disagree Whether Russia Paid Taliban](https://time.com/5861815/intelligence-agencies-disagree-russia-taliban/) [POLITICS](/section/politics/) *  Jun 26, 2020 ### [Military Leaders May Have to Choose Between Trump and Troops](https://time.com/5860398/esper-milley-trump-loyalty/) [POLITICS](/section/politics/) *  Jun 23, 2020 ### [U.S. and EU Officials Are Worried About Putin and Ukraine](https://time.com/5858231/putin-ukraine/) [POLITICS](/section/politics/) *  Jun 19, 2020 ### [Summit Spotlights U.S.-China Tensions](https://time.com/5856106/hawaii-summit-escalating-us-china-tensions/) [POLITICS](/section/politics/) *  Jun 18, 2020 ### [John Bolton: Trump Put Ambitions Ahead of Nation](https://time.com/5855245/john-bolton-book-donald-trump/) A long-anticipated new book by former national security advisor John Bolton contains explosive revel... [POLITICS](/section/politics/) *  Jun 17, 2020 ### [Why the Alliance Between Europe and America is Falling Apart](https://time.com/5855200/us-europe-alliance-failing/) [POLITICS](/section/politics/) *  Jun 3, 2020 ### [Pentagon Pushes Back Against Trump](https://time.com/5846978/trump-military-protests/) Military leaders are concerned Trump is wielding the armed forces for personal gain, rather than nat... [POLITICS](/section/politics/) *  May 19, 2020 ### [Trump's War on Watchdogs](https://time.com/5838599/trump-fires-steve-linick-state-department/) In the last six weeks, Trump has fired or replaced four inspectors general, part of a broad effort t... [POLITICS](/section/politics/) *  May 1, 2020 ### [U.S.-China Rivalry Hampers COVID-19 Intel](https://time.com/5830420/trump-china-rivalry-coronavirus-intelligence/) [POLITICS](/section/politics/) *  Apr 29, 2020 ### [Kim Yo-Jong's Links to Secretive Office](https://time.com/5829508/kim-yo-jong-money-office-39/) [WORLD](/section/world/) Meta: null ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/john-walcott/","name":"John Walcott"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/john-walcott/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/john-walcott/"},"name":"John Walcott","jobTitle":null,"description":"John Walcott covers foreign policy and national security.","url":"https://time.com/author/john-walcott/","worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```